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Read, Stuart. "Bidwill of Wide Bay: A Botanist Cut Short." Queensland Review 19, no. 1 (June 2012): 75–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2012.7.

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John Carne Bidwill was born in 1815 in England and died in Queensland in 1853. His short life is relevant to Australia's garden history, botany, the horticultural use of Australian plants in European gardens and the colonial history of Sydney, New Zealand, Wide Bay and Maryborough. He may have been the first to introduce plant breeding into Australia. In a short life, and working in his spare time, he contributed more than many full-time and longer-lived horticulturists. This included discovering new species, crossing new hybrids (specific and inter-generic), and propagating and promulgating plants for the nursery trade and gardeners. His efforts are marked by his name gracing many Australian and New Zealand plants, exotic plant hybrids and modern suburbs of Sydney and Maryborough. This brief biography outlines Bidwill's time in Australasia and Queensland.

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Cushing, Nancy, and Kevin Markwell. "Balancing Biography and Institutional History: Eric Worrell’s Australian Reptile Park." Public History Review 16 (November 8, 2009): 78–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v16i0.616.

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When a young naturalist opened his new wildlife park at Wyoming on the NSW Central Coast in the late 1950s, he gave it his own name: Eric Worrell’s Australian Reptile Park. Through the park, Worrell made a significant contribution to environmental education, the development of knowledge of captive animal care and display and the provision of antivenoms for the bites of a range of dangerous creatures. More than this, it was the geographic and emotional centre of Worrell’s world: the fulfilment of a childhood dream, a home for his family and a site for forming new personal and professional relationships. In preparation for the jubilee of the park, its history is being written by two academics from the University of Newcastle. An attractive means of creating the necessary narrative structure and human interest to ensure the wide appeal of this history is to follow Worrell’s lead and place his life at the centre of this institutional history. This is the direction suggested by the written sources on the park and it is accentuated by many of our oral informants who organise their memories of the park around Worrell. To what extent can an institutional history be a biography of the person at the heart of that institution? Is it possible to disentangle the life from the institution? This article offers some preliminary answers to these questions through a case study of the writing of a history of Eric Worrell’s Australian Reptile Park.

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Thomson, Alistair. "Biography of an Archive: ‘Australia 1938’ and the Vexed Development of Australian Oral History." Australian Historical Studies 45, no. 3 (September 2, 2014): 425–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2014.946522.

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Burnside, Sarah. "Australian Judicial Biography: Past, Present and Future." Australian Journal of Politics & History 57, no. 2 (June 2011): 221–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.2011.01593.x.

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Howes, Hilary. "Aspects of the historiography of Australian archaeology." Historical Records of Australian Science 32, no. 2 (2021): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr20017.

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This article is a historiography, or critical review of the history, of Australian archaeology. It commences with a discussion of the two major regional histories of Australian archaeology, and a survey of the literature on the removal and scientific use of human remains. This is followed by an examination of the two major approaches to the history of Australian archaeology—individual and collective biography, and the use of specific archaeological sites or broader geographical regions—then three complementary but less used historical approaches. Finally, I offer suggestions for further research in the history of Australian archaeology.

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Hearn, Mark, and Christopher Cunneen. "Australian Dictionary of Biography: Supplement 1580-1980." Labour History, no. 91 (2006): 206. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27516164.

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Dean, Peter. "Commemoration, Memory, and Forgotten Histories: The Complexity and Limitations of Australian Army Biography." War & Society 29, no. 2 (October 2010): 118–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/204243410x12796373846347.

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Smith, Andrew R. M. "Peter Jackson: A Biography of the Australian Heavyweight Champion, 1860-1901." Journal of Sport History 39, no. 1 (April 1, 2012): 195–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.39.1.195.

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Smith, Anthony M. A. "Aids is … Reflections on the Australian Research Response to the HIV and Aids Epidemics." International Journal of Health Services 28, no. 4 (October 1998): 793–810. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/aclh-kw3b-ubyg-g4ul.

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Drawing on institutional history, biography, and interviews with key informants from the range of academic disciplines that have contributed to the Australian response to the HIV and AIDS epidemics, this article provides critical insights into the factors that have shaped the Australian research response. The author demonstrates conflicts between disciplines that are rooted in epistemological differences. While the conflicts and tensions are often expressed in terms of access to resources, the disputes are grounded in the relative power of academic disciplines, most particularly the preeminence of biomedicine, and are related to the weight attributed to the various knowledge claims of those disciplines.

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Kirkby, Diane. "‘Ocker Sheilahs’ and ‘Bloody Barmaids’:Caddie,biography and gender history in 1970s Australian historical film." Australian Historical Studies 38, no. 130 (October 2007): 279–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10314610708601247.

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Baker, D. W. A., and Geoffrey Serle. "Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11: 1891-1939, Nes-Smi." Labour History, no. 57 (1989): 102. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27508964.

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Shields, John, and John Ritchie. "Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12: 1891-1939, Smy-Z." Labour History, no. 60 (1991): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27509064.

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Pickering, Paul, and D. Langmore. "Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, 1981-1990, A-K." Labour History, no. 95 (2008): 271. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27516334.

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Bauer, Belinda. "Lions and Chickens: A specimen biography approach to unprovenanced natural history objects." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (May 22, 2018): e25661. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25661.

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Taxidermy made for display is often considered less significant in museum research collections. This is because historical taxidermy material often becomes disassociated with key data and through the rigours of public display, end up in poor physical condition. However by tracing a specimen's biography as a living animal and following its transition into a museum afterlife, much can be revealed about the development of natural history collections and changing attitudes towards animals. This presentation will investigate several pieces of taxidermy in the zoology collection of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) (http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/collections_and_research/zoology/collections), where research has uncovered surprising stories and helped reassess the significance and cultural value of this material. An unregistered lion head, identified as animal celebrity John Burns, tells the story of the golden age of Australian and New Zealand circuses, changing attitudes around animal ethics in the circus and the negotiations between scientific institutions in acquiring exotics species in the late nineteenth century. A collection of taxidermied domestic chickens from the 1940s is found to mark the modernisation of the TMAG public displays in communicating current research and the development of a dedicated museum education unit. The colourful afterlife of these specimens in the museum collection highlights struggles with storage issues, changes in collecting priorities and evolution of public display and education at TMAG.

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Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara. "Andreas Gaile, Rewriting History: Peter Carey’s Fictional Biography of Australia." Zeitschrift für Australienstudien / Australian Studies Journal 25 (2011): 141–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.35515/zfa/asj.25/2011.17.

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Barrett, Sean, and Goran Štrkalj. "John Irvine Hunter (1898-1924): Australian Anatomist and Medical Educator." Acta Medica Academica 49, no. 1 (August 1, 2020): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5644/ama2006-124.288.

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<p>This paper focuses on the short, but brilliant career of the Australian anatomist and medical educator, John Irvine Hunter. Hunter’s biography is presented within the context of the early twentieth century anatomy and medical education. John Irvine Hunter was not only the youngest ever Professor of Anatomy at the University of Sydney, but he was also undeniably brilliant with regard to teaching and researching anatomy, physiology and anthropology. While his short career answered many questions in these fields, it raised more questions regarding what Hunter may have accomplished if only he had been given the chance. These unanswered questions have spawned what we now affectionately refer to as the “Hunter Legend”. His most ambitious work on the dual innervation of striated muscle, while eventually disproven, formed an important stepping-stone in the bridging of anatomy and physiology. His thought-provoking concepts were viewed with much intrigue, and at the time were very well received.</p><p><strong>Conclusion. </strong>Hunter remains one of the most prominent and inspiring figures in the history of Australian anatomy and medicine.</p>

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NELSON, E. CHARLES. "John White A.M., M.D., F.LS. (c. 1756–1832), Surgeon-General of New South Wales: a new biography of the messenger of the echidna and waratah." Archives of Natural History 25, no. 2 (June 1998): 149–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1998.25.2.149.

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John White, Surgeon-General of New South Wales, is best remembered for his handsome book Journal of a voyage to new South Wales published in London during 1790. He was a native of County Fermanagh in northwestern Ireland. He became a naval surgeon and in this capacity was appointed to serve as surgeon on the First Fleet which left England for New South Wales (Australia) in 1787. While living in New South Wales, White adopted Nanberree, an aboriginal boy, and fathered a son by Rachel Turner, a convict, who later married Thomas Moore. John White returned to England in 1795, became a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and was granted the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Master of Arts by the University of St Andrews. White was married twice, and was survived by his second wife and his four children, including his illegitimate, Australian-born son, Captain Andrew Douglas White. Dr John White died in 1832 aged 75 and is buried in Worthing, Sussex, England.While serving as Surgeon-General at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, between 1788 and 1794 John White collected natural history specimens and assembled a series of paintings of plants and animals. After returning to England, White lent these paintings to botanists and zoologists, and permitted copies to be made. Thus, he contributed substantially to European knowledge of the indigenous flora and fauna of Australia.

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Coper, Michael. "Geoffrey Sawer and the Art of the Academic Commentator: A Preliminary Biographical Sketch." Federal Law Review 42, no. 2 (June 2014): 389–420. http://dx.doi.org/10.22145/flr.42.2.7.

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Geoffrey Sawer was the Foundation Professor of Law at The Australian National University, appointed in 1950 at the age of 39. He was a pioneer in the understanding of law in a broader context, especially at the intersection between law and politics, and his fluid and incisive writing has been a major influence on succeeding generations of academics, practitioners and judges. Drawing on Sawer's writings, oral history interviews and private papers, Michael Coper makes an affectionate biographical sketch of this outstanding scholar and warm and genial human being. In particular, he explores how Sawer's scholarship stands up today, when so much has changed in the legal and political landscape; what is enduring and what is transient in a life's work; and what lessons we can draw when we look at law and life through the lens of biography.

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Chadwick, Owen. "The Australian dictionary of evangelical biography. Edited by Brian Dickey. Pp. xxii + 417. Sydney: Evangelical History Association, 1994. 0 646 16625 5." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 46, no. 3 (July 1995): 573–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046900018479.

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Yucel, Salih. "Sayyid İbrahim Dellal." Australian Journal of Islamic Studies 3, no. 3 (February 14, 2019): 135–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.55831/ajis.v3i3.139.

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İbrahim Dellal (1932-2018) was a community activist and played a pioneering role in establishing religious and educational institutions after his arrival in Melbourne in early 1950. As the grandson of a late Ottoman mufti, being educated at the American Academy, a Baptist missionary school in Cyprus, clashed at times with his traditional upbringing based on Islam, service and Ottoman patriotism. İbrahim’s parents, especially his mother, raised their son to be Osmanli Efendisi, an Ottoman gentleman. He was raised to be loyal to his faith and dedicated to his community. I met him in the late 80s in Sydney and discovered he was an important community leader, a ‘living history’, perhaps the most important figure in the Australian Muslim community since the mid-20th century. He was also one of the founders of Carlton and Preston mosques, which were the first places of worship in Victoria. I wrote his biography and published it in 2010. However, later I found he had more stories related to Australian Muslim heritage. First, this article will analyse İbrahim’s untold stories from his unrevealed archives that I collected. Second, İbrahim’s traditional upbringing, which was a combination of Western education and Ottoman Efendisi, will be critically evaluated. He successfully amalgamated Eurocentric education and Islamic way of life. Finally, his poetry, which reflects his thoughts, will be discussed.

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Savvinov, Pavel Olegovich. "From political and intellectual biography of the Yakut emigrant Asklefeodot Afanasyevich Ryazansky (1898-1968)." Genesis: исторические исследования, no. 11 (November 2020): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-868x.2020.11.34291.

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The subject of this research, dedicated to mental characteristics of the world of Yakut emigration of 1917 – 1940, is the history of Yakut emigration on the example of life of the active participant in the anti-Bolshevik movement in the northeast of Russia, who fought for the alternative path of development in the XX century and the Yakut emigrant Asklefeodot Afanasyevich Ryazansky (1898 – 1968). The object of this research is the history of Russian emigration. Historical-biographical method is applies in the course of this work. The article analyzes the adaptation of the Yakut emigrant in the context of impact of external factors in China and Australia, as well as his political views. The scientific novelty is defined by the fact that the topic of Yakut emigration and “Yakut world” did not receive due coverage within the Russian historical science, although it is an important scientific problem that requires comprehensive examination on the background of Revolution of 1917 and Russian Civil war in the context of world history. The conclusion is made that along with majority of Russian emigrants of the first wave, A. A Ryazansky struggled for survival in the new conditions abroad and was able to adjust to foreign cultural environment, having become a prominent journalist in China, and later the owner of marine company in Australia. Ryazansky saw the future of his homeland (Russia) as a democratic federative state with guaranteed preservation of ethnocultural identity of the indigenous peoples of Yakutia with the possibility of receiving education.

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Leoni, Giulia. "Rudimentary capital budgeting for a utopian Italian colony in Australia: Accounting as an advocating device." Accounting History 26, no. 3 (March 30, 2021): 386–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1032373220981422.

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Accounting historiography has often paid attention to individuals for their pivotal roles in the development of accounting practice and thought; however, little is known about individuals using accounting outside the traditional professional domain. This study explores the use of accounting calculations by a non-professional accountant, the intellectual Melchiorre Peccenini, who advocated his utopian project of an Italian colony in Australia in a book published in Melbourne. By analysing his life and context, as well as his writings and use of calculations, the article reveals how accounting was embedded in the intellectual discourse of an individual and became an advocating device. With its results, this investigation contributes to the accounting biography tradition by extending its boundaries to include ordinary individuals who can provide new insights into accounting as a multi-purpose device.

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Sullivan, Peter, and John Pearn. "Medical memorials in Antarctica: a gazetteer of medical place-names." Journal of Medical Biography 20, no. 4 (November 2012): 173–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/jmb.2012.012060.

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In Antarctica an astonishing more than 300 ‘medical’ place-names record the lives of surgeons and physicians who have served as leaders, clinicians and scientists in the field of polar medicine and other doctors memorialized for their service to medicine. These enduring medical memorials are to be found in the names of glaciers, mountains, capes and islands of the vast frozen Southern Continent. This Antarctic Medical Gazetteer features, inter alii, doctor-expedition leaders, including Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867–1936) of France and Desmond Lugg (b. 1938) of Australia. The Medical Gazetteer lists 43 geographical features on Brabant Island that were named after famous doctors. This Gazetteer also includes a collection of medical place-names on the Loubet Coast honouring Dr John Cardell (1896–1966) and nine other pioneers who worked on the prevention of snow blindness and four islands of the Lyall Islands Group, including Surgeon Island, named after United States Antarctic Medical Officers. Eleven geographic features (mountains, islands, nunataks, lakes and more) are named after Australian doctors who have served with the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions based at Davis Station. Biographic memorials in Antarctica comprise a collective witness of esteem, honouring in particular those doctors who have served in Antarctica where death and injury remains a constant threat.

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Broeze, Frank. "Business biography and economic history: Robert Brooks, the Union Bank of Australia, and the development of imperial finance, 1837-1876." Australian Economic History Review 36, no. 1 (January 1, 1996): 64–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aehr.361003.

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Goad, Philip. "Designing Woodleigh School: educator and architects in context." History of Education Review 43, no. 2 (September 30, 2014): 190–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/her-03-2014-0014.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the professional context of the educator and architects who designed and conceived Woodleigh School in Baxter, Victoria, Australia (1974-1979) and to identify common design threads in a series of schools designed by Daryl Jackson and Evan Walker in the 1970s. Design/methodology/approach – The research was derived from academic and professional publications, film footage, interviews, archival searches and site visits. Standard analytical methods in architectural research are employed, including formal, planning and morphological analysis, to read building designs for meaning and intent. Books, people and buildings were examined to piece together the design “biography” of Woodleigh School, the identification of which forms the basis of the paper's argument. Findings – Themes of loose fit, indeterminate planning, coupled with concepts of classroom as house, and school as town, and engagement with a landscape environment are drawn together under principal Michael Norman's favoured phrase that adolescents might experience “a slice of life”, preparing them for broader engagement with a world and a community outside school. The themes reflect changing aspirations for teenage education in the 1970s, indicating a free and experimental approach to the design of the school environment. Originality/value – The paper considers, for the first time, the interconnected role of educator and architect as key protagonists in envisioning connections between space and pedagogy in the 1970s alternative school.

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König, Heidi. "General Relativity in the English-speaking World: The Contributions of Henry L. Brose." Historical Records of Australian Science 17, no. 2 (2006): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr06007.

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The story of how the theory of general relativity found its way into the English speaking world during the Great War has often been told: it is dominated by the towering figure of the Cambridge astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington, who (in 1916, and through the good services of the Dutch physicist Willem de Sitter) received copies of the papers Einstein had presented to the Berlin Academy in 1915. Eddington engaged in promoting the new theory, and in order to put one of its predictions — the bending of light in a gravitational field — to the test, he arranged for the famous expeditions to observe the eclipse of 29 May 1919 to be mounted, the results of which, presented in November of the same year, were the major breakthrough of general relativity and provoked a public interest unprecedented in the whole history of science. But a history of general relativity in the English-speaking world would be thoroughly incomplete if it did not take into account the contributions made by another, nowadays almost forgotten but at that time probably the most prolific and most dedicated of its popularizers, the Australian physicist and translator Henry L. Brose. Largely overlooked in recent accounts of the history of general relativity, Brose's rendering into English of a series of excellent German works on the theory was decisive for its understanding in the Anglo-Saxon world. The texts he chose (including Moritz Schlick's Space and Time in Contemporary Physics and Hermann Weyl's Space, Time, Matter) were among the first and most important that had so far appeared on the subject, and their English translations were published at a time when accounts of what was to be called 'one of the greatest of achievements in the history of human thought' were scarce and badly needed in Britain. Also, it will become clear from a closer look at both Brose's biography and the tense political situation between Britain and Germany shortly after the Great War, that hardly any of those works would have made its way into England so promptly (if at all) if not for Brose's enormous personal efforts and dedication. This paper retraces Brose's role as a translator and promotor of general relativity in its early days, thus shedding light on the mechanisms of knowledge transfer during and after the First World War.

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White, Kate. "Australian political biography and biographers: Revisiting Australian political biography." Australian Journal of Biography and History 5 (August 10, 2021): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/ajbh.05.2021.01.

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Weir, Christine. "Rev. John Burton frames the Fiji Methodist Mission, 1924." Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies 8, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 171–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00036_1.

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In his role as General Secretary of the Australasian Methodist Missionary Society in the 1920s and 1930s, Reverend John W. Burton travelled each winter to one of the ‘mission fields’ in the South Pacific to inspect the mission’s activities, and to encourage and advise. Accompanying him was his camera; Burton had long been an enthusiastic photographer. Following his 1924 visit to Fiji he created two albums of his photographs, one illustrating the indigenous Fijian mission, the other the Indian mission. This article focuses on the ‘social biography’ of the photographs, and examines Burton’s choice and balance of subjects in each album, which cover educational and other mission activities, village and town scenes, landscapes and individual and group portraits. It also considers the placement and message in context of many of the individual photographs when they were later reproduced to illustrate stories in the mission magazine, Missionary Review, of which Burton was the Editor.

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Walicki, Andrzej. "Another outlook on Russia. Letters from the “Russian Archive”." Philosophy Journal 14, no. 2 (2021): 167–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/2072-0726-2021-14-2-167-196.

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The article presents previously unpublished letters written by Andrzej Walicki (15.05.1930–21.08.2020), a worldly renowned Polish historian of Russian thought, to Professor Michael Maslin, the head of the Department of the History of Russian Philosophy at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Walicki’s letters (1997–2019) together with books, articles and other materials formed his gift to the abovementioned Department. Walicki himself referred to these materials as “my small Russian archive”. The letters are written in excellent Russian and require no additional revision or stylistic improvement. This publication retains the letters in their full originality including some phrases of Polish origin. These unique epistles reveal Walicki’s individual creative worldview. The letters contain new information about the details of Walicki’s biography and his work in Poland, Russia, USA, Great Britain, Japan, Australia. The letters provide a unique perspective on the “flow of ideas”, which was Walicki’s personal conception of understanding and interpretation of the Russian intellectual history from the Enlightenment through the Russian religious and philosophical Renaissance of the twentieth century. The letters discuss his interactions with Sergei Gessen, Isaiah Berlin, Leszhek Kolakowski, Czeslaw Milosz, George Kline, James Scanlan, Leonard Shapiro, Martin Malia, Richard Pipes, Nicholas Riasanovsky, James Billington etc. A special attention is paid to the critique of the Western and especially Polish Russophobia based on various superstitions and stereotypes about Russia as well on a lack of knowledge, various kinds of bias and blunders. Of considerable interest are Walitsky’s expert assessments of the general state of the scientific historiography of Russian philosophy, its fundamental differences from Soviet dogmatic Marxism, of which the Polish scientist was a consistent critic.

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Allbrook, Malcolm, and Melanie Nolan. "Australian historians and biography." Australian Journal of Biography and History 1 (December 11, 2018): 3–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/ajbh.2018.01.

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Burnside, Sarah. "Griffith, Isaacs and Australian Judicial Biography." Griffith Law Review 18, no. 1 (January 2009): 151–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2009.10854634.

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Shepperson, George, P. E. H. Hair, and Doug Munro. "J.W. Davidson at Cambridge University: Some Student Evaluations." History in Africa 27 (January 2000): 215–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172114.

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Before arriving in Canberra in 1950 as the foundation Professor of Pacific History at the Australian National University, J.W. (Jim) Davidson (1915-1973) was an Oxbridge don and author of a small book on The Northern Rhodesian Legislative Council (1948). A New Zealander by birth and upbringing, Davidson arrived at Cambridge in late 1938 on a Strathcona Scholarship and embarked on a PhD dissertation at St John's College, becoming a Fellow in 1945 and from 1 January 1947, a University Lecturer in Colonial Studies. While the formal details are easily established, little of substance is known about Davidson's activities at Cambridge. As Davidson's biographer-to-be, I was fortunate to receive a letter from P.E.H. Hair, one of Davidson's undergraduate students at Cambridge, who learned of my work from a footnote in one of my journal articles. Hair put me in contact with a fellow Davidson student, George Shepperson, which led to another fruitful correspondence.Davidson is well known as the founding father of modern Pacific Islands historiography, and perhaps even better known as a Constitutional Advisor and Consultant to various Pacific territories approaching independence or self-government. These aspects of his life have been amply documented, not least by Davidson himself. A largely unknown aspect of Davidson's career is his undergraduate teaching: after all, he spent most of his working life at an institution devoted to research and postgraduate supervision, unfettered by the demands of undergraduate teaching. With this in mind, and with their permission, it was decided to publish the recollections of Paul Hair and George Shepperson of Jim Davidson as their History tutor at John's.

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Gatt-Rutter, John. "Translating Lives: Italian-Australian Biography and Translation." Life Writing 4, no. 1 (April 2007): 41–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14484520701211008.

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Barman, Roderick J. "Biography as History." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 21, no. 2 (May 10, 2011): 61–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1003088ar.

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Biography has been for the last fifty years the stepchild of history. Drawing on the author’s personal experience as a biographer and a reader of biographies, the article considers the reasons why most historians avoid biography, examines the three unproductive forms of the genre or “no gos” to be avoided by would-be biographers, discusses the five caveats that should guide those writing biographies, and indicates the ways in which biography can be employed to advance our understanding of the past. Despite being a genre abounding in problems, biography is both viable and valuable, a useful but not a major weapon in the historian’s arsenal.

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Lucas, W. Scott. "Biography as history." Contemporary Record 2, no. 5 (March 1989): 38–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13619468908581020.

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Jackson, Mark. "Biography as History." Journal of Medical Biography 12, no. 2 (May 2004): 63–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096777200401200202.

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Keynes, Milo. "Biography as History." Journal of Medical Biography 12, no. 4 (November 2004): 242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096777200401200415.

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Goldman, Lawrence. "History and biography." Historical Research 89, no. 245 (July 15, 2016): 399–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12144.

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CHAPLIN, S. "Biography as History." Oxford Art Journal 18, no. 2 (January 1, 1995): 101–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/18.2.101.

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Hamad, Bushra. "History and Biography." Arabica 45, no. 3 (1998): 215–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1570058982641699.

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Banner, Lois W. "Biography as History." American Historical Review 114, no. 3 (June 2009): 579–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr.114.3.579.

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Puck, Theodore T. "Living history biography." American Journal of Medical Genetics 53, no. 3 (November 15, 1994): 274–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.1320530313.

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Mittwoch, Ursula. "Living history—biography." American Journal of Medical Genetics 55, no. 1 (January 2, 1995): 3–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.1320550104.

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van der Haagen-Wulff, Monica C. "Gorgobad: reflections on a German-Australian family biography." Postcolonial Studies 21, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 49–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2018.1437669.

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Waldstreicher, David. "Beyond Biography, Through Biography, Toward an Integrated History." Reviews in American History 37, no. 2 (2009): 161–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rah.0.0102.

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Le, Vincent. "The Deepfakes to Come: A Turing Cop’s Nightmare." Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture 17, no. 2-3 (December 30, 2020): 8–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.51151/identities.v17i2-3.468.

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In 1950, Turing proposed to answer the question “can machines think” by staging an “imitation game” where a hidden computer attempts to mislead a human interrogator into believing it is human. While the cybercrime of bots defrauding people by posing as Nigerian princes and lascivious e-girls indicates humans have been losing the Turing test for some time, this paper focuses on “deepfakes,” artificial neural nets generating realistic audio-visual simulations of public figures, as a variation on the imitation game. Deepfakes blur the lines between fact and fiction, making it possible for the mere fiction of a nuclear apocalypse to make itself real. Seeing oneself becoming another, doing and saying strange things as if demonically possessed, triggers a disillusionment of our sense of self as human cloning and sinister doppelgängers become a reality that’s open-source and free. Along with electronic club music, illicit drugs, movies like Ex Machina and the coming sex robots, the primarily pornographic deepfakes are how the aliens invade by hijacking human drives in the pursuit of a machinic desire. Contrary to the popular impression that deepfakes exemplify the post-truth phenomenon of fake news, they mark an anarchic, massively distributed anti-fascist resistance network capable of sabotaging centralized, authoritarian institutions’ hegemonic narratives. That the only realistic “solutions” for detecting deepfakes have been to build better machines capable of exposing them ultimately suggests that human judgment is soon to be discarded into the dustbin of history. From now on, only a machine can win the Turing test against another machine. Author(s): Vincent Le Title (English): The Deepfakes to Come: A Turing Cop’s Nightmare Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020) Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje Page Range: 8-18 Page Count: 11 Citation (English): Vincent Le, “The Deepfakes to Come: A Turing Cop’s Nightmare,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020): 8-18. Author Biography Vincent Le, Monash University Vincent Le is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Monash University. He has taught philosophy at Deakin University and The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He has published in Hypatia, Cosmos and History, Art + Australia, Šum, Horror Studies and Colloquy, among other journals. His recent work focuses on the reckless propagation of the will to critique.

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Stannard, Martin, and Nigel Hamilton. "Biography: A Brief History." Modern Language Review 103, no. 3 (July 1, 2008): 822. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20467927.

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Williamson, Lori. "Women's History and Biography." Gender & History 11, no. 2 (July 1999): 379–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.00147.

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Pimlott, Ben. "Is Contemporary Biography History?" Political Quarterly 70, no. 1 (January 1999): 31–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.00202.

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Lindsay, Lisa A. "Biography in African History." History in Africa 44 (March 8, 2017): 11–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hia.2017.1.

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Abstract:This paper charts the rise and transformation of biography as a form of Africanist history writing. Biography in African history, as in other fields, has included attention to nationalist heroes as well as the lives of slaves, women, and other subalterns. Recently, some Africanist historians have embraced transnational life histories, particularly those situated in the “black Atlantic” of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some themes, methods, and limitations of such biographies are discussed in relation to the author’s own project on a nineteenth century immigrant to West Africa.

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